Today's News

The Roane County Industrial Development Board has a special-called meeting today — Wednesday — to discuss the “Santek Project.”
Santek is a solid waste management company headquartered in Cleveland, Tenn.
Leslie Henderson, president and CEO of The Roane Alliance, said Santek is considering a site in the Roane Regional Business and Technology Park.

Local art enthusiasts had a chance to view the work of African American artist Harold Winslow during an exhibit hosted Aug. 31-Sept. 10 by the main campus of Roane State Community College.
A sampling of Winslow’s works were on display in both the O’Brien Art Gallery and the lobby of Roane State’s Library.
“It’s rare that we get an exhibit on the retrospective on an established artist,” said Bryan Wilkerson, associate professor of art at Roane State Community College.

The death of a 50-year-old man on Monday may have been the result of a gun-cleaning accident.
“It appeared that he was cleaning his shotgun and shot himself in the chest,” Roane County Sheriff Jack Stockton said.
The incident happened at 810 Dogwood Valley Road in East Roane County.
Sheriff’s Deputy Greg Russell responded and reported finding Ronnie Jaynes in the basement laying on the floor with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the chest.

By MIKE GIBSONnewsroom@roanecounty.com
Mayor Troy Beets has a vision for Kingston to enter the farming business, but it won’t require any gardening tools or a green thumb.
At a recent meeting of the Tennessee Renewable Energy and Economic Development Council in Cookeville — Beets is on the council’s board — members heard a presentation from a company that builds solar farms, or clusters of electricity-producing solar farms, on public lands or on building tops.

Community organizers will commemorate Oak Ridge’s anniversary through a heritage celebration planned for Sept. 19, the 70th anniversary of the creation of the World War II Secret City, and the first site of the Manhattan Project.

On Sept. 19, 1942, Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers made the decision to acquire 90 square miles of East Tennessee farmland to be the location for the first site of the Manhattan Project facilities.

A 2011 graduate of Rockwood High School, the soldier is the son of Beth Mitchell of Harriman and Scottie Boles of Rockwood.

During the nine weeks of training, Boles received training in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, and Army history, core values and traditions.